Celestial Menagerie In The Large Magellanic Cloud

Celestial Menagerie In The Large Magellanic Cloud

The Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), only about 160 000 light-years from our own Milky Way, so very close on a cosmic scale, is one of the closest galaxies to our own Milky Way and in this spectacular…
Jedi Infiltrate SpaceCamp, Destroy NASA

Jedi Infiltrate SpaceCamp, Destroy NASA

NASA is dead.  Jedi killed it. Used to be, growing geeks wanted to go to Space Camp.  To fly rockets, to mimic operating a shuttle, to #$^ing be an astronaut.  It was engineering and…
The Highest-Energy Cosmic Rays From Auger

The Highest-Energy Cosmic Rays From Auger

I read with pleasure today a proceedings writeup of the Moriond 2010 talk given by S. Andringa on behalf of the Pierre Auger Observatory. It is too bad that I did not visit La Thuile this year: the…
Sun-like Star Devours Planet WASP-12b

Sun-like Star Devours Planet WASP-12b

WASP-12b is the hottest known planet in the Milky Way galaxy, and it may also be the shortest-lived. The planet is being eaten by its parent star, according to observations made by a new instrument…